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Olivier Henley <olivier.henley@gmail.com> writes:

> Therefore an Ada type cannot 'dangle free' as a class can?

Well, a class can't either. The equivalent of a class is a tagged type +
primitive subprograms declared in a package; but you can have more than
one tagged type in a package.